SPA Biennial Meeting
Decatur, GA

Oct. 18-21, 2001

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The 2001 SPA Biennial Meeting was held at the Holiday Inn Select Hotel and Conference Center, Decatur, GA. For Oct. 18-21, 2001. Decatur is just outside Atlanta, about 10 minutes from Emory University. Robert I. Levy, professor emeritus from the University of California, San Diego, delivered the Distinguished Lecture.

Meeting sessions were scheduled in 3-hour blocks and 2-hour blocks, with a total of 12 sessions, and two plenary sessions on Saturday Morning. The program included a session with leading people from the fields of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry and Philosophy giving talks about how their fields and work can benefit from cooperation with anthropologists. Sessions ran from Friday morning through Sunday morning.

The plenary session on Saturday morning involved a general discussion of SPA and psychological anthropology issues, followed by the distinguished lecture by Robert Levy. A banquet was Saturday night; prizes were awarded and a tribute given to Bob Levy.

Sessions

Listed below are sessions with their organizers. If you have an interest in obtaining papers from one of these sessions, contact the organizer.


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
Welcoming Reception
SPA Board of Directors Meeting

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

SESSION 1: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING
Organizer: Marida Hollos, marida_hollos@brown.edu

Barbara Rogoff and Ruth Paradise (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Learning through Observant Participation in Cultural Activity

Stanton Wortham (University of Pennsylvania)

Identity Development in First-Person Discourse

Michael Nunley (University of Oklahoma)

Teen Morality and Baby Neuroscience: Can Neurobiology Help Us Understand Enculturation?

Carol Worthman (Emory University)

Painful Topics: Stress, Distress and Human Development

Hyang-Jin Jung (University of Minnesota)

Junior-Highs are Crazy: The American Ethnopsychology of Early Adolescence and the Emphasis on Emotional Control

SESSION 2: GLOBALIZATION: PSYCHOCULTURAL APPROACHES
Organizer: Alex Hinton, ahinton@newark.rutgers.edu

Bradd Shore (Emory University)

Knowledge In-formation: Modularity and the Cognitive Basis of Modernity

Alex Hinton (Rutgers)

Globalization, Modernity, and Genocide in Cambodia

Conerly Casey (UCLA)

The Formation of Cultural Enemies: Media and Perceptions of Cultural Aggression among Nigerian Youths

Karen J. Brison (Union College)

Globalization and the Sociocentric Self in Rural Fiji

Doug Hollan (UCLA)

Dreaming in a Global World

Eileen P. Anderson (Harvard)

Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Abuse and Globalization in Belize

Bruce Knauft (Emory)

Desiring Development: The Affect and Motivation of 'Progress' in Out-of-the-way Places

Charles Lindholm (Boston University) Discussant

Discussion, 1 hour

Discussion Leaders

Lucia Cargill (Medical College of Wisconsin)

Karen Hunt Ahmed (University of Chicago)

SESSION 3: FROM CULTURE AND PERSONALITY TO PERCEN-CENTERED ETHNOGRAPHY: STUDENT PAPERS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (PART 1)
Organizer: April Leininger, april@weber.ucsd.edu

Kaoru Watanabe (University of Illinois at Chicago)

How Young Cambodian Mothers Interact with their Children: Cultural Continuity and Changes

Jack R. Friedman (Duke)

Agents, Agency, and "Secret Agency": Negotiating Selves in the Context of Post-Socialist Collapse

Shana Fruehan (University of Chicago)

Sexual Revolution? Japanese Women and the Birth Control Pill

Daniel H. Lende (Emory)

The Subjective Experience of Drugs: Integrating Biological and Cultural Approaches

SESSION 4: FROM CULTURE AND PERSONALITY TO PERCEN-CENTERED ETHNOGRAPHY: STUDENT PAPERS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (PART 2)
Organizer: April Leininger, april@weber.ucsd.edu

Janxin Leu, David Liu, and Richard Nisbett (Michigan)

Culture and cognition in immigrant minds: Situating thinking among Chinese/Taiwanese Americans

Eric Lindland (Emory)

Localizing Religion: Cultural Psychologies of Spirituality in Malawi

Anna Månsson (Lund University, Sweden)

Transformations of the Self-image: Meanings of Conversion to Islam.

Jill Mitchell (Program in Medical and Psychocultural Anthropology, UCLA)

Construction of Illness Narratives in Relation to Psychoneuroimmunological Indicators of Health Status in Individuals with Auto-immune Disease

Heather Rae Obleman de Espinoza (University of California, San Diego )

Effect of Family Structure on Need Achievement in Puerto Rican Students

Penny Owen (Michigan State)

The Stories of Heroes: The Power of Eroticism in Ritual and Narrative Structure

Vaishali Raval (University of Windsor, Canada)

Aastitva (Existence) for East Indian Women: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews

Allen Tran (UCLA, AIDS Project Los Angeles)

Bisexual Identity Formation and HIV Status Disclosure

SESSION 5: CULTURE AND MEMORY
Organizer: Roger Lohmann, rlohmann@acs.wooster.edu

Roger Ivar Lohmann (The College of Wooster)

The Action of Memory in Cultural Storage, Transmission, and Reception

Yoram Bilu (The Hebrew University)

Circumcision, Haircut, and Bibliophagia: Memory and Male Identity in Jewish Ultraorthodox Rituals of Childhood

Haley Duschinski (Harvard University

"Land, Homeland, and the Value of Memory

Keiko Matsuki (Doshisha University)

"'Nominalizing' the Past Self: Dialogical Construction of Memory and Self in Japanese Narrativization Process"

Jeannette Marie Mageo (Washington State)

Dreams and Cultural Memory

Yohko Tsuji (Cornell)

Not a Boring Matter: Reminiscence among Older Americans

Robert W. Schrauf (Northwestern)

The Linguistic Encoding of Cultural Experience in Memory: Experimental, Psychoanalytic, and Neuropsychological Evidence

SESSION 6: CULTURE AND IDENTITY NARRATIVES
Organizer: Melvyn Hammarberg, mhammarb@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, (Penn)

Creating Possibility: Cosmetic Surgery and Identity Change

Melvyn Hammarberg, (Penn)

Coping with Threats to Self as a Mormon Missionary

Kristina Wirtz (Penn)

Retelling the Telling Moment: Narratives as Guides to Religious Conversion in Cuban Santeria.

Fran Barg (Penn)

Breast Cancer Viewed as an Assault on the Self.

Discussant: Daniel M. G. Fessler, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles

SESSION 7: "REACHING OUT" WORKSHOP - CAN THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE CLINICIAN TALK TO ONE ANOTHER?
Organizers: Ray Fogelson and Tanya Luhrmann (University of Chicago)

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 20, 2001

SESSION 8: PLENARY SESSION I, GENERAL DISCUSSION: REACHING OUT, RETHINKING PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

SESSION 9: PLENARY SESSION II, DISTINGUISHED LECTURE, ROBERT I. LEVY

SESSION 10: PRESIDENTIAL FORUM, REACHING OUT: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VIEWED FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES
Organizer: Bradd Shore (Emory)

Nancy Nercessian: Department of Cognitive Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

Larry Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University and President International Society of Cognitive Science

SESSION 11: FEMINISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Organizer: Naomi Quinn, nquinn@socsci.duke.edu

Rebecca J. Lester (University of Chicago)

Like a Natural Woman: Celibacy and the Embodied Self in Anorexia Nervosa

Katherine Frank (College of the Atlantic)

Hustlers, Pros, and the Girl Next Door: Social Class, Race, and the Consumption of the Authentic Female Body

Holly F. Mathews (East Carolina)

Negotiating Gender Ideology in Natural Contexts: the Use of the La Lllorona Tales in a Mexican Community

April Leininger (University of California, San Diego)

Scenes from a Vietnamese-American Marriage: Gendered Internalization and the Fate of Gender Inequality and Patriarchy

Kathleen Barlow (Minnesota)

Critiquing the "Good Enough" Mother: Mothering, Intersubjectivity, and the Negotiation of Self in Murik Society

Susan Seymour (Pitzer College)

Multiple Caretaking of Infants and Young Children: Some Implications for Feminist and Psychological Anthropology

Naomi Quinn (Duke) and Wendy Luttrell (Harvard)

Gender Belief Systems Reconsidered in Relational Psychoanalytic Terms

Discussant: Claudia Strauss (Pitzer College)

SESSION 12: RETHINKING BATESON
Organizer: Ernestine McHugh, emhh@rochester.edu

Kari Mikko Vesala (University of Helsinki), Seppo Knuuttila (University of Joensuu), Kimmo Ketola (university of Helsinki), Antti Mattila (Private Practice, Helsinki)

The Perspective of Noncommunication

Ernestine McHugh (Rochester)

Play, Purpose, and Transitional Space

David B. Kronenfeld (University of California, Riverside)

Gregory Bateson: Pulling It All Together

Robert I. Levy (North Carolina)

Bateson And Academia: Reflections On The Fit Of Different Kinds Of Visions With The Business Of Departments Of Anthropology

Discussant: Eric Silverman, De Pauw University

SESSION 13: STRUCTURES OF FEELING
Organizer: Setha Low slow@gc.cuny.edu

Jacquetta Hill (University of Illinois)

The Feeling of Futures

Gloria Levitas (Queens College, C.U.N.Y)

Making Senses:Ethnographic and Literary Documentation of the Cultural Transformation of Sensory Experience and Its Effect on Human Emotions and Physiology

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb (N.Y.U)

From the Sound Up: Practices of Silence, Affect and Identity

Rebecca Sachs Norris (Boston University)

Education of Feeling and the Embodiment of Culture

Geoffrey White (East-West Center)

Emotive Institutions

Discussants:

Joseph Glick (Psychology, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y.)

Catherine Lutz (Anthropology, U.N.C. Chapel Hill)

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001

SESSION 14: NATURAL SELECTION FOR SOCIAL TRANSMISSION: THE EVOLUTIONARY UNDERPINNINGS OF CULTURALLY VARIABLE PRACTICES
Organizer: Dan Fessler, dfessler@anthro.ucla.edu

Dan Fessler (UCLA)

Introduction: The need for evolutionary perspectives in psychological anthropology, or Why Hallowellian psychology will no longer suffice

Alan Fiske (UCLA)

Evolved psychological mechanisms that are functionally dependent on culture

Francisco Gil-White (UCLA)

The coevolution of ethnic markers and essentialist reasoning about social groups

Discussant

Maurice Bloch

Joe Henrich (Emory)

Prestige psychology and cultural transmission

Pete Richerson (UCLA)

The evolution of human ultra-sociality

Discussants:

Paul Rozin (Penn)

Scott Atran (Michigan) Discussant

Our express purpose is to explore the utility of evolutionary perspectives in understanding the intersection of psychological and cultural phenomena.

SESSION 15: CULTURE, POWER AND PSYCHE
Organizer: Kevin Birth, kevin_birth@qc.edu

Mark A. Cravalho (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

Culture, Power and Psyche in the Reproduction of Religious Authority: The Deká in Brazilian Candomblé

Ken Jacobson (U of Massachusetts-Amherst)

Of Politics, Educational Practice and Stereotype Threat: The Neo-colonialism of Accountability

Katherine Ewing (Duke U)

Being Other: Power and the Negotiation of Identity in a Diaspora Community

McKim Marriott (U of Chicago)

The Logics of Hindu Power and Emotion

Suzanne R. Kirschner (Holy Cross)

"Good Babies" or "Goodness of Fit"?: Essentialism and Contextualism in Discourse on Temperament

Daniel Linger (UC Santa Cruz)

Virtual Subjectivity

Kevin Birth (Queens C, CUNY)

Indiscipline and Revelry: Resistant Bodies, Time and Experiences of Consciousness in Trinidadian Christmas and Carnival

Discussant

Kevin Yelvington (U South Florida)

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